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Assessing the Potential Impact of Introducing VAT on Price Levels in Qatar
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Internationaal Bureau voor Fiscale Documentatie (IBFD)
, 2021 , Article)
Potential introduction of VAT in Qatar may have a significant pass-through effect on inflation rates. Nevertheless, using the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices at constant tax rates (HICP-CT), in this article the authors ...
Cryptocurrencies and Finance Theories
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Universiti Teknologi MARA.
, 2021 , Article)
Cryptocurrency (CCY) as a new key player in the currency system that has drawn the attention of scholars to examine its influence, relations and the opportunities that it may provide. However, a financial theoretical ...
A characterization of Top Trading Cycles under trading networks
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
We consider an object reallocation problem within a specific class of trade restrictions. An agent can only receive the object of someone else connected to him, which is referred to as feasibility. We introduce a Network ...
Does Political Risk Affect the Flow of Foreign Direct Investment into the Middle East North African Region
(2013 , Article)
Given the political risk in the Middle East North African (MENA) region, this research aimed to
unveil the importance of the different components of political risk on the change in foreign direct investment
(FDI), ...
‘Independence’ of Central Banks and the Political Economy of Monetary Policy
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Taylor & Francis
, 2023 , Article)
The notion of an ‘independent’ central bank has dominated monetary policy debates for the past three decades. The arguments for the political independence of central banks are closely related to the adoption of ‘inflation ...
Ownership structure, corporate governance and bank performance: Evidence from gcc countries
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Virtus Interpress
, 2011 , Article)
The paper examines the effect of ownership structure and board characteristics on bank performance of GCC counties. Evidence indicates that the extent of the foreign ownership level has a significant positive association ...
For narrower income inequality: traditional finance or microfinance?
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Routledge
, 2023 , Article)
This paper uses the theory of information imperfections to examine the relationship between income inequality and financial development in a dual financial system comprising traditional finance and microfinance. It uses ...
Portfolio management and dependencies among precious metal markets: Evidence from a Copula quantile-on-quantile approach
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
This study examines the dependence structure among four major precious metal markets: gold, palladium, platinum, and silver. Using the novel Copula Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (C-QQR) approach of Sim (2016), we show ...
Competition, regulation, and systemic risk in dual banking systems
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2024 , Article)
This study investigates the impact of competition and banking regulation on the systemic risk of Islamic Banks (IBs) and Conventional Banks (CBs). Utilizing a random effects panel model with robust errors and an unbalanced ...